The breakfast and presentations will be held at the
DoubleTree Hotel San Antonio
Tamayo Ballroom
Loop 410 and McCullough
Breakfast 7:30 a.m.
A question and answer session will follow each address.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Jim Lehrer - “The State of American Journalism”

One of the nation’s premier journalists, Jim Lehrer began his career in Dallas, Texas as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News and then the Dallas Times-Herald.  His newspaper career eventually led him to public television.

Mr. Lehrer went to Washington with PBS in 1972, teaming with Robert MacNeil in 1973 to cover the Senate Watergate hearings. In 1975 they began what became the “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” and in 1983 the “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” became the first 60 minute evening news program on television. In 1995 the program was renamed the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”.

During the last five presidential elections, Jim Lehrer has served as a moderator for ten of the nationally televised debates.  An award winning journalist, he is the author of sixteen novels, two memoirs and three plays.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

John Bolton - “Meeting the Challenges of a Perilous World”

On August 1, 2005, John Bolton was appointed as United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.  Prior to his appointment, he served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from May 2001 to May 2005. 

During his tenure at the United Nations, Ambassador Bolton was an advocate for human rights.  He supported U.S. efforts to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, to push Syria out of Lebanon and to bring African peacekeepers into shaky Somalia.

Previously, John Bolton was Senior Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute, a non profit public policy center dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom through research education and open debate. 

Friday, January 18, 2008

George Bodenheimer - "The Cultural Phenomena of Sports in America”

An ESPN and cable industry pioneer, George Bodenheimer was named ESPN’s fifth president on November 19, 1998. In March 2003 he was also appointed President of ABC
Sports, overseeing all the multimedia sports assets of the Walt Disney Company. The role of co-chairman, Disney Media Networks, was added in April 2004.

As President of ESPN, Inc., Mr. Bodenheimer leads one of the world’s premier brands with more than 40 business entities. As President of ABC Sports, he oversees the most comprehensive sports programming schedule that includes Monday Night Football, the NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, World Cup Soccer, the British Open, the PGA Tour and more.

George Bodenheimer was named the 2001 “Sports Industrialist of the Year” by Sports Business Daily and in 2003 The Sporting News selected him as 2003’s “Most Powerful Person in Sports.”

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Ben Stein- “Reaching for Yield in Today's Market ”

Ben Stein is a financial commentator for FOX News, a commentator on human interest stories for CBS Sunday Morning, a commentator on retirement planning for PBS’s Wall Street Week and a columnist of economics for The New York Times’ Sunday business section. He is also universally known for his long career on the big and small screen.

Ben Stein is a graduate of Columbia University with honors in economics and a graduate of Yale Law School where he helped to found the Journal of Law and Social Policy.  He worked as a poverty lawyer in New Haven, CT, and Washington D.C. and as a trial lawyer on intellectual property issues. 

Ben Stein has written and published sixteen books, seven novels and nine nonfiction books about ethical and social issues in finance and about the political and social content of mass culture.